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Yahoo
09-08-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lombardo hammered for authorizing Nevada National Guard to help ICE
Gov. Joe Lombardo. (Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current) In agreeing to deploy the Nevada National Guard to help carry out the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda, Gov. Joe Lombardo is 'turning Nevadans against Nevadans,' said Democratic U.S. Rep. Dina Titus. Titus was among several Nevadans who expressed harsh reactions to Lombardo's decision. Lombardo's office told the Nevada Independent Friday that about two dozen Nevada National Guard personnel will be providing 'administrative' assistance to U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Defense Department late last month authorized several states, all with Republican governors, to deploy National Guard assistance with mass deportation efforts. The DOD statement said National Guard personnel would provide 'case management, transportation and logistical support, and clerical support for the in- and out-processing' of undocumented people at ICE detention facilities. The DOD statement noted the federal government would pay for National Guard assistance. Lombardo is the latest Republican governor to agree to the Trump administration's overture seeking National Guard support for ICE activities. Several states (including Florida, Louisiana, South Dakota, Tennesee, Idaho, South Carolina, and Wyoming) have so far announced or confirmed National Guard personnel will be accordingly called up, with several others poised to join them. ICE's tactics, which have included masked men apprehending people off the streets in unmarked cars, and detaining people with no criminal records and U.S. citizens, have been met with a barrage of criticism and scrutiny. Immigration has consistently been Trump's strongest issue in polling over the years. But a Gallup poll last month found 35% of respondents approving of Trump's handling of immigration, while 62% disapproved. At least one Republican governor has declined to authorize the National Guard. A spokesperson for Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said due to 'concern for the tactics, and disruption that some of those tactics are causing, in workplaces and communities,' the Vermont National Guard would not be called up to help ICE. Concern about tactics and disruption were similarly cited by Nevadans who blasted Lombardo's decision. 'The Nevada National Guard's mission is to protect us, not sow more fear in our communities by doing Trump's dirty work,' Titus said Friday on X. The Nevada Latino Legislative Caucus issued a statement Friday evening saying Lombardo 'has chosen Trump over Nevada.' 'He is not protecting our communities, he is helping to tear them apart,' said Democratic Assemblymember Cecilia Gonzalez, NLLC caucus chair. 'Mass deportations,' the NLCC statement continued, 'will devastate Nevada's families, our economy, and our reputation. Tourists will be scared away, small businesses will lose workers, and neighborhoods will be militarized. Children will fear going to school. Families will live in constant terror.' The state 'deserves leaders who will stand up to Washington when it threatens our values, not roll over and hand them the keys to our state,' the NLCC statement added. Saying Nevada Republicans 'have moved so far right they're unrecognizable,' Democratic state Sen. Fabian Doñate noted that Lombardo's most recent Republican predecessor, Gov. Brian Sandoval, ruled out calling the National Guard to help round up undocumented people when Trump made a similar request during his first administration. The 'Trump-Lombardo agenda has fractured families and already negatively impacted Nevada's tourism-dependent economy,' said the Nevada Immigration Coalition in a statement responding to Lombardo's decision to deploy the National Guard. 'It's shameful that Trump has bent the knee to Trump,' the statement added.
The Independent
02-08-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Blow for Trump's ICE raids as court upholds ban on snatching people based on appearance or job
The Trump administration suffered another blow to its mass deportation agenda on Friday after an appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that prevents Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from detaining a person based on their appearance, native language, or job. A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles said the plaintiffs, a cohort of five individuals and three immigration advocacy organizations, were likely to succeed on their claim that ICE agents violated the Fourth Amendment by relying on four factors to form reasonable suspicion to support detention stops. Those four factors include apparent race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or English with an accent, presence at a particular location such as a laborer pick-up site, and the type of work a person does. Three plaintiffs who are day laborers said in their original lawsuit against Trump administration officials that they were waiting to be picked up to go to a construction site job when ICE agents swooped in and intimidated them. The plaintiffs said the immigration law enforcement officers never identified themselves, stated they had arrest warrants, nor informed the plaintiffs of the bases for the arrests. The Ninth Circuit panel upheld a previous temporary injunction set by District Court Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong in June. In keeping with Trump's mass deportation agenda, immigration law enforcement officers were deployed throughout Southern California to begin conducting sweeping raids. Many of those raids, according to the lawsuit, were conducted at 'certain types of businesses' such as car washes, because immigration law enforcement officials determined those businesses were more likely to hire people without legal documentation. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit referred to those as 'roving patrols' and said they were being detained without reasonable suspicion. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable search and seizures. The raids, which led to protests in downtown Los Angeles back in May, have been challenged by multiple individuals and immigration advocacy groups. One plaintiff, Jason Brian Gavidia, said ICE agents stopped him in June after he stepped onto the sidewalk outside of a tow yard in Montebello, California. Gavidia, who is an American citizen, identifies as Latino and said ICE agents pushed him up against a chain-link fence and interrogated him. Even after Gavidia gave ICE agents his Real ID, they seemingly did not believe him. In her earlier ruling, Frimpong said Gavidia and other plaintiffs were likely to succeed 'in proving that the federal government is indeed conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers.' Frimpong ordered immigration law enforcement not to rely solely on the four factors 'except as permitted by law.' While the appeals court panel upheld much of Frimpong's ruling, they did strike the 'except as permitted by law,' saying that language was too vague.
Fox News
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Democrat accuses Trump administration of diverting 'critical resources' from fighting organized retail theft
A top Senate Democrat is accusing the Trump administration of diverting "critical resources" away from fighting crimes such as organized retail theft so the president can carry out a "mass deportation agenda." Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the remark during a hearing on Tuesday in which he warned lawmakers about the "large scale theft of retail products that are then sold to unsuspecting consumers, often on online marketplaces." "Federal law enforcement also has an important role to play, but we must acknowledge this administration has announced different priorities. Instead of combating crimes like I described, the Trump administration has diverted critical resources toward the president's mass deportation agenda," Durbin said. "Homeland Security Investigations, better known as HSI, plays a leading role in combating criminal networks and organized crime, including organized retail theft. But under this administration, HSI has been diverted toward rounding up immigrants, many of whom pose no threat whatsoever to this country," Durbin added. Durbin cited a recent report saying "HSI supervisors have waived agents off new cases so they have more time to make immigration enforcement arrests." "One veteran agent said 'no drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation.' It's infuriating. Instead, he said, HSI is 'arresting gardeners.' These are not the actions of an administration serious about combating crime," Durbin concluded. "Diverting federal resources endangers Americans and leaves us less equipped to target and disrupt criminals like those in organized retail theft." The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. During the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, titled "Beyond the Smash and Grab: Criminal Networks and Organized Theft," chairman and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he has seen a "continued rise in organized retail and supply chain crime and the criminal networks that are involved in that criminal activity. "We've all seen videos of mobs ransacking stores of thousands of dollars of goods and doing it in a very short period of time," Grassley said. "The reality is, some of the worst criminal organizations -- including cartels, terrorists and human traffickers -- use this type of crime, funding their misdeeds or launder[ing] ill-gotten proceeds," Grassley added, noting that "Homeland Security investigators estimate that the average American family will pay more than $500 annually in additional costs, due to the impact of organized retail crime." Donna Lemm, the chief strategy officer at IMC Logistics, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday that "Cargo theft is robbing our supply chain to the tune of $35 billion per year." "A few years ago, cargo theft was barely on my company's radar. In 2021, we had five cargo thefts reported. In 2024, we had 876 cargo thefts reported. That's a 17,520% increase," Lemm said. "Our partner railroads share with us drone footage of thieves cutting air brakes, containers strewn across the desert, and criminals emptying these containers in minutes," she added.
The Verge
09-07-2025
- Politics
- The Verge
Democrats want ICE agents to unmask.
Democrats want ICE agents to unmask. President Trump's mass deportation efforts have seen people across the country snatched by masked men in civilian clothing, some of whom don't initially identify themselves as law enforcement. A new bill seeks to ban immigration officers from wearing non-medical face coverings during arrests and require them to clearly display their agency's name or acronym, and their own names or badge numbers.
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Joe Rogan is SLAMMED by Hollywood actor for calling out Donald Trump's 'insane' ICE raids
Joe Rogan was slammed by actor, Mark Ruffalo, for expressing disbelief that Donald Trump actually carried out his campaign promise of mass deportations. Over the weekend, the actor, who hit the campaign trail for Kamala Harris last year, condemned the podcaster for playing dumb about the president's immigration crackdown. 'Dear Joe Rogan, it's a little late now to pretend like Project 2025 didn't exist and wasn't the playbook all along,' the Marvel star, 57, wrote on Threads. 'You are either not that smart or not that dumb. It's hard to tell at this point.' Ruffalo was responding to a post from The Tennessee Holler, which denounced Rogan for helping Trump get elected, despite warnings of how his time in office would threaten the rights of women, the LGBTQIA+ community and immigrants. 'You were warned repeatedly, yet you helped get him elected and helped let this happen. It's good that you're speaking up, but please be honest with yourself about the role you played here,' the progressive news site wrote. On Wednesday's episode of his podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, the host called Trump's ICE raids 'insane' and 'horrific.' 'The targeting of migrant workers—not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up at construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners,' Rogan said. 'Like, really?' He went on to say: 'I don't think anybody would have signed up for that.' Trump came into the office pledging to enforce the largest mass deportation in U.S history. According to NBC News, he promised to target 'more than 10 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States.' Since beginning his presidency, the outlet reported that 'border crossings have plummeted, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests have doubled, and the number of people in detention is at an all-time high.' As of June 20, 2025, 55,764 migrants are being held in detention facility locations. In February 11,000 migrants were deported, then another 12,300 the following month and approximately 17,200 in April. Rogan's criticisms of Trump come after he had the president on his show in the run-up to the election. 'Dear Joe Rogan, it's a little late now to pretend like Project 2025 didn't exist and wasn't the playbook all along,' the Marvel star, 57, wrote on Threads He later endorsed the president, and political pundits widely credited his show for the surge in young male voters that supported Trump in his re-election race. The Joe Rogan Experience has consistently taken the top spot on the podcast charts and has a strong influence over young men, with a recent survey by Media Monitors estimating his viewership is 71 percent male. Young men swung to the right in 2024, and many political pundits and strategists looked to figures like Rogan as an explanation for the shift. Even though Rogan endorsed the president, he's strayed from unwavering support in recent months and has consistently criticized Trump's immigration policies. Meanwhile, Ruffalo, who is known for his political activism, plead with voters to cast their ballots for Harris in the 2024 presidential election. The Hulk actor previously endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Throughout Harris' campaign, she received an outpour of support from Oscar winners, Grammys superstars and musical icons, including from Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin, Charli XCX, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney and Eminem. Meanwhile, public figures, like Kanye West, Dennis Quaid, Elon Musk, Kansas City Chief kicker, Harrison Butker, Russell Brand, Savannah Chrisley, Kelsey Grammar, Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock, said they were voting for Trump.
